The 'Today's Job' thread

[doobin]

that looks 'exciting' work .. not a lot of room for error with that on the dipper

It’s fine so long as you keep the weight where it’s needed. Makes it much easier to go cross carriage on slopes like those photos.

Basically it’s only if you were a moron that you’d be in trouble with it, otherwise it’s a help having a variable position counterweight!

 

[GazCro]

can't see them trees surviving long, buried like that .... lovely job though Stu

Depends, I've seen/ dug out stumps of trees which have been filled in around and ground level raised by about 5 foot and they had sent roots out at higher level. Made digging out a kin nightmare when you thought you'd dug all round and got all the roots to find another load 5 ft further down.

 

[DaveDCB]

can't see them trees surviving long, buried like that .... lovely job though Stu

I’m sure they will reseed ontop of the banks and everything will be fine

 

[Storrsy]

It’s fine so long as you keep the weight where it’s needed. Makes it much easier to go cross carriage on slopes like those photos.

Basically it’s only if you were a moron that you’d be in trouble with it, otherwise it’s a help having a variable position counterweight!

Exactly keep the knocker uphill and the blade downhill and you shouldn't end up on the "oops" thread

 

[Storrsy]

I’m sure they will reseed ontop of the banks and everything will be fine

Looks like Sycamore too. Industrious little feckers!

 

[6feetdown]

Not sure where to post.
Any good to anyone

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[Left hooker]

can't see them trees surviving long, buried like that .... lovely job though Stu

Tis the idea

 

[6feetdown]

Cables and slop

 

[Gunners]

Replaced yet another bollard around our local war memorial today, ready for tomorrows service. How people keep crashing into it I don't know, I must do at least one a year.

 

[Smiffy]

Replaced yet another bollard around our local war memorial today, ready for tomorrows service. How people keep crashing into it I don't know, I must do at least one a year.

I had to go out at 1 o'clock in the morning a couple of years ago as someone had narrowly missed the actual memorial but hit a piece of stone laying on the ground which had been inscribed with names from more recent conflicts. It was about 1mx 1.2m by 150mm thick. They had hit it so hard they had pushed it into the middle of the road. We had to put it back before some unsuspecting car hit it. As you wouldn't see it on a dark road

 

[Giles]

Managed to get a load done pushing site towards completion no one else on site to distract or get in the way. Did more today than I have all week partly due to other jobs or paperwork but also seems to be way with no lunch or brew or other ppl dictating the pace.

Ready for turf in courtyard now

The lovely pile of light dusty soil we had in august is now claggy wet sticky but no stones in it

 

[DaveDCB]

Love days like that! But also then think to myself wtf have I been pi$$*!g around at all week

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Love days like that! But also then think to myself wtf have I been pi$$*!g around at all week

FACT!!!
When I work alone (and leave the phone in the van) I’m always amazed at how much gets done.

 

[DaveDCB]

FACT!!!
When I work alone (and leave the phone in the van) I’m always amazed at how much gets done.

Then at the end of the day your messages read ‘ I’ve just sat in the van all day, you didn’t answer your phone so I’ve done nothing 🫣’

 

[Lancs Lad]

Replaced yet another bollard around our local war memorial today, ready for tomorrows service. How people keep crashing into it I don't know, I must do at least one a year.

Nice one, doing your bit for the "lads" is a very satisfying service.
I had to go out with power washer one year as some twats had chucked red paint all over ours

 

[Left hooker]

Son-in-law to owner of site sent his drone up on site Friday
2 mill of reinforcement steel products looks like from the air

And what we are basically sitting on

 

[JD450A]

Sorting Injectors whilst there out..... she got a little bit of water in so we are giving her some love at last.

 

[6feetdown]

 

[Shovelhands]

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Looks like a lot of hassle to get rid of a rock, could sell that rather than bury it…..

 

[6feetdown]

Looks like a lot of hassle to get rid of a rock, could sell that rather than bury it…..

I actually contemplated that! Hopefully at some point it will be dug back out as it was a trial hole and backfilled same day